I believe that poems die the moment they are outwardly expressed.

There is a courage of happiness as well as a courage of sorrow.

Do we not all spend the greater part of our lives under the shadow of an event that has not yet come to pass?.

An act of goodness is of itself an act of happiness.

Happiness is rarely absent; it is we that know not of its presence.

If the bee disappeared off the face of the earth, man would only have four years left to live.

How strangely do we diminish a thing as soon as we try to express it in words.

The living are just the dead on holiday

At every crossroads on the path that leads to the future, tradition has placed 10,000 men to guard the past.

We are never the same with others as when we are alone. We are different, even when we are in the dark with them.

Many a happiness in life, a many a disaster, is due to chance alone; but the peace within us can never be governed by chance.

I would alter nothing of the journey made for it is in this road travelled that the sweetest of lessons are learnt.

Something I learned in the Marine Corps that I've applied to acting is, one, taking direction, and then working with a group of people to accomplish a mission and knowing your role within that team.

Growing up as a comedian, the first thing you dream of is having your own album, but even more than that, I always wanted that hour special on cable.

We must walk before we run.

I lost three times in my career. Losing to Holmes I could deal with, because I lost to a true champion.

Profits are part of the mechanism by which society decides what it wants to see produced.

Those persons who have perceptive eyes enjoy beauty everywhere.

To live in relationship and yet remain independent, that is what courage is.

If you can connect all the dots between what you see today and where you want to go, then it's probably not ambitious enough or aspirational enough.

Often on a wet day I begin counting up; what I've read; what I haven't read.